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Object Number 99-12-70/53398
Display Title Paddle-shaped spear or staff
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, carved wood, long tapered paddle -like blade at 1 end, cracked/ broiken t
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / France / French Polynesia / Windward Islands / Tahiti
Additional Geographic Terms Society Islands
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 278 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm (109 7/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53398
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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